---
name: "kmos_std_star"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "cpl-plugin-kmos-doc"
version: "2.1.0+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kmos_std_star"
---

# kmos\_std\_star(7)

Create the telluric correction frame.

## NAME

kmos\_std\_star - Create the telluric correction frame.

## SYNOPSIS

esorex **kmos\_std\_star** \[OPTIONS\] FILE.sof

## DESCRIPTION

This recipe creates a telluric frame and a PSF frames.

Since there cannot be 1 std star per IFU in one exposure, we use several exposures in order to have at least one standard star and one sky in each IFU. The frames are organised following this logic: 1. For each IFU the first standard star in the list of frames is\
    taken. All subsequent standard star exposures for this IFU are ignored 2. A closest in time sky exposure is uѕed 3. IFUs not containing a standard star and a sky will be empty in the result

NOISE\_SPEC contains the shot noise \[sqrt(counts\*gain)/gain\] If the exposures have been taken with KMOS\_spec\_cal\_stdstarscipatt, an additional noise component is added: All existing sky exposures for an IFU are subtracted pairwise, spectra are extracted and the std deviation is  computed

  Input files:

   DO                      KMOS                                             \
    category                Type  Explanation                Required #Frames\
    \--------                ----- -----------                -------- -------\
    STD                     RAW   Std. star & sky exposures      Y     \>=1   \
    XCAL                    F2D   x calibration frame            Y      1    \
    YCAL                    F2D   y calibration frame            Y      1    \
    LCAL                    F2D   Wavelength calib. frame        Y      1    \
    MASTER\_FLAT             F2D   Master flat frame              Y      1    \
    WAVE\_BAND               F2L   Table with start-/end-wl       Y      1    \
    ILLUM\_CORR              F2I   Illumination correction        N     0,1   \
    SOLAR\_SPEC              F1S   Solar spectrum                 N     0,1   \
                                  (only for G stars)                         \
    ATMOS\_MODEL             F1S   Model atmospheric transmisson  N     0,1   \
                                  (only for OBAF stars in K band)            \
    SPEC\_TYPE\_LOOKUP        F2L   LUT  eff. stellar temperature  N     0,1

  Output files:

   DO                      KMOS                                            \
    category                Type   Explanation                              \
    \--------                -----  -----------                              \
    TELLURIC                F1I    The normalised telluric spectrum         \
                                   (including errors)                       \
    STAR\_SPEC               F1I    The extracted star spectrum              \
                                   (including errors)                       \
    STD\_IMAGE               F2I    The standard star PSF images             \
    STD\_MASK                F2I    The mask used to extract the star spec   \
    NOISE\_SPEC              F1I    The extracted noise spectrum

## OPTIONS

- **--startype** *\<str\>*

  The spectral type of the star (O, B, A, F, G) e.g. G4V (str; default: ´´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.startype** \[default = \].

- **--imethod** *\<str\>*

  Method to use for interpolation. \["NN" (nearest neighbour), "lwNN" (linear weighted nearest neighbor), "swNN" (square weighted nearest neighbor), "MS" (Modified Shepard´s method), "CS" (Cubic spline)\] (str; default: ´CS´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.imethod** \[default = *CS*\].

- **--fmethod** *\<str\>*

  Fitting method (gauss, moffat, profile (str; default: ´gauss´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.fmethod** \[default = *gauss*\].

- **--neighborhoodRange** *\<float\>*

  Defines the range to search for neighbors in pixels (float; default: 1.001). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.neighborhoodRange** \[default = *1.001*\].

- **--magnitude** *\<str\>*

  Star magnitude (2 values in HK, eg. 12.1,13.2) (str; default: ´´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.magnitude** \[default = \].

- **--flux** *\<bool\>*

  TRUE: Apply flux conservation. FALSE: otherwise (bool; default: True). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.flux** \[default = *True*\].

- **--save\_cubes** *\<bool\>*

  Flag to save reconstructed cubes (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.save\_cubes** \[default = *False*\].

- **--no\_noise** *\<bool\>*

  Skip the noise computation on sky exposures (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.no\_noise** \[default = *False*\].

- **--xcal\_interpolation** *\<bool\>*

  Flag to Interpolate xcal between rotator angles (bool; default: True). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.xcal\_interpolation** \[default = *True*\].

- **--suppress\_extension** *\<bool\>*

  Flag to Suppress filename extension (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.suppress\_extension** \[default = *False*\].

- **--b\_samples** *\<int\>*

  The number of samples in wavelength for the reconstructed cube (int; default: 2048). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.b\_samples** \[default = *2048*\].

- **--mask\_method** *\<str\>*

  Method used : mask, integrated or optimal (str; default: ´optimal´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.mask\_method** \[default = *optimal*\].

- **--centre** *\<str\>*

  The centre of the circular mask (pixel) (str; default: ´7.5,7.5´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.centre** \[default = *7.5,7.5*\].

- **--radius** *\<float\>*

  The radius of the circular mask (pixel) (float; default: 3.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.radius** \[default = *3.0*\].

- **--cmethod** *\<str\>*

  Apply "average", "median", "sum", "min\_max." or "ksigma". (str; default: ´ksigma´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.cmethod** \[default = *ksigma*\].

- **--cpos\_rej** *\<float\>*

  The positive rejection threshold for kappa-sigma-clipping (sigma). (float; default: 3.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.cpos\_rej** \[default = *3.0*\].

- **--cneg\_rej** *\<float\>*

  The negative rejection threshold for kappa-sigma-clipping (sigma). (float; default: 3.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.cneg\_rej** \[default = *3.0*\].

- **--citer** *\<int\>*

  The number of iterations for kappa-sigma-clipping. (int; default: 3). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.citer** \[default = *3*\].

- **--cmax** *\<int\>*

  The number of maximum pixel values to clip with min/max-clipping. (int; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.cmax** \[default = *1*\].

- **--cmin** *\<int\>*

  The number of minimum pixel values to clip with min/max-clipping. (int; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is **kmos.kmos\_std\_star.cmin** \[default = *1*\].

Note that it is possible to create a configuration file containing these options, along with suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the 'esorex --help' command.

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for the kmos pipeline can be downloaded as  a PDF file using the following URL:

-

  **ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/kmos/kmos-pipeline-manual-2.9.pdf**

An overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be found on the web page **https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/**.

Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex (1)  man page.

It is possible to call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package. See **https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html** for further information.

The other recipes of the kmos pipeline are [*kmo\_arithmetic*(7)](/kmo_arithmetic/7.md), [*kmo\_copy*(7)](/kmo_copy/7.md), [*kmo\_fit\_profile*(7)](/kmo_fit_profile/7.md), [*kmo\_fits\_strip*(7)](/kmo_fits_strip/7.md), [*kmo\_make\_image*(7)](/kmo_make_image/7.md), [*kmo\_noise\_map*(7)](/kmo_noise_map/7.md), [*kmo\_rotate*(7)](/kmo_rotate/7.md), [*kmo\_shift*(7)](/kmo_shift/7.md), [*kmo\_sky\_mask*(7)](/kmo_sky_mask/7.md), [*kmo\_stats*(7)](/kmo_stats/7.md), [*kmos\_combine*(7)](/kmos_combine/7.md), [*kmos\_dark*(7)](/kmos_dark/7.md), [*kmos\_extract\_spec*(7)](/kmos_extract_spec/7.md), [*kmos\_flat*(7)](/kmos_flat/7.md), [*kmos\_gen\_reflines*(7)](/kmos_gen_reflines/7.md), [*kmos\_gen\_telluric*(7)](/kmos_gen_telluric/7.md), [*kmos\_illumination*(7)](/kmos_illumination/7.md), [*kmos\_reconstruct*(7)](/kmos_reconstruct/7.md), [*kmos\_sci\_red*(7)](/kmos_sci_red/7.md), [*kmos\_sky\_tweak*(7)](/kmos_sky_tweak/7.md), [*kmos\_test*(7)](/kmos_test/7.md), [*kmos\_wave\_cal*(7)](/kmos_wave_cal/7.md)

## VERSION

kmos\_std\_star 2.1.0

## AUTHOR

Alex Agudo Berbel, Y. Jung \<usd-help@eso.org\>

## BUG REPORTS

Please report any problems to usd-help@eso.org. Alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User Support Department \<usd-help@eso.org\>.

## LICENSE

This file is part of the CRIRES Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2002,2003 European Southern Observatory

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